Published: 09/09/2019

Blueprint of the Final FRCA examination mapped against the intermediate level units of training

Essential Units

Unit of Training

MCQ

CRQ 

SOE 1

SOE 2

Anaesthesia for neurosurgery, neuroradiology and neuro critical care

Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and cardiothoracic critical care

General duties

 

 

 

 

Airway management

Critical incidents

Day surgery

General, urological and gynaecological surgery

Head, neck, maxillo-facial and dental surgery

Management of respiratory and cardiac arrest

Non-theatre 

Orthopaedic surgery

Perioperative medicine

Regional 

Sedation

Transfer medicine

 

Trauma and stabilisation

Intensive care medicine

Obstetrics

Paediatric 

Pain medicine

Optional Units

Unit of Training

MCQ

CRQ 

SOE 1

SOE 2

Ophthalmic

Plastics/Burns

Vascular

Advanced sciences to underpin anaesthetic practice

Unit of Training

MCQ

CRQ 

SOE 1

SOE 2

Anatomy

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Applied clinical pharmacology

Applied physiology and biochemistry

Nutrition

 

Physics and clinical measurement

 

Statistical basis for trial management